Synonyms of murky

murky

adjective

1

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

I didn't like walking around the murky campground without a flashlight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkened
• dark
• obscured
• obscure
• black
• gloomy
• dim
• stygian
• somber
• lightless
• dusky
• darkish
• darkling
• dimmed
• unlit
• tenebrous
• dusk
• darksome
• caliginous
• rayless
• sombre
• pitchy
• shadowy
• misty
• shady
• pitch-dark
• pitch-black
• twilit
• clouded
• cloudy
• gray
• crepuscular
• foggy
• starless
• moonless
• lackluster
• tenebrific
• pale
• dulled
• dull
• grey
• smoggy
• sunless
• shadowlike
• soupy
• leaden
• fuliginous
• beclouded
• befogged

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• light
• bright
• luminous
• brilliant
• illuminated
• sparkling
• lucid
• lucent
• shining
• lighted
• illumined
• brightened
• resplendent
• glaring
• lit
• glowing
• incandescent
• lightsome
• radiant
• shiny
• lustrous
• glossy
• effulgent
• beamy
• lambent
• alight
• beaming
• moonlit
• sunlit
• spotlit
• highlighted
• aglitter
• moony
• relucent
• agleam
• ultrabright
• starlit
• spotlighted
• ablaze
• floodlit
• floodlighted

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• light
• bright
• luminous
• brilliant
• illuminated
• sparkling
• lucid
• lucent
• shining
• lighted
• illumined
• brightened
• resplendent
• glaring
• lit
• glowing
• incandescent
• lightsome
• radiant
• shiny
• lustrous
• glossy
• effulgent
• beamy
• lambent
• alight
• beaming
• moonlit
• sunlit
• spotlit
• highlighted
• aglitter
• moony
• relucent
• agleam
• ultrabright
• starlit
• spotlighted
• ablaze
• floodlit
• floodlighted

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2

as in dark

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

the murky shadows of the cemetery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dark
• bleak
• darkening
• somber
• depressive
• lonely
• depressing
• desolate
• gray
• cold
• blue
• morbid
• lonesome
• solemn
• gloomy
• cloudy
• black
• miserable
• dismal
• grey
• dreary
• cheerless
• wretched
• sullen
• lugubrious
• dire
• chill
• sad
• depressed
• tenebrous
• glum
• morose
• oppressive
• drear
• godforsaken
• forlorn
• funereal
• sepulchral
• saturnine
• melancholy
• sombre
• disconsolate
• elegiac
• comfortless
• sunless
• plutonian
• dreich
• dim
• unhappy
• grim
• dull
• elegiacal
• desperate
• hopeless
• negative
• menacing
• discomfiting
• melancholic
• woeful
• mournful
• woebegone
• tenebrific
• dismaying
• low
• dejected
• distressful
• dispiriting
• discouraging
• upsetting
• mirthless
• down
• Cimmerian
• pessimistic
• drab
• distressing
• disheartening
• droopy
• colorless
• sorrowful
• despondent
• lamentable
• hangdog
• inconsolable
• plaintive
• dour
• threatening
• lowery
• louring
• lowering
• loury

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bright
• cheerful
• friendly
• cheery
• festive
• sunshiny
• cordial
• comforting
• joyous
• buoyant
• gay
• merry
• joyful
• jolly
• optimistic
• blithe
• gay
• mirthful
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• blithesome
• cheering
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

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• bright
• cheerful
• friendly
• cheery
• festive
• sunshiny
• cordial
• comforting
• joyous
• buoyant
• gay
• merry
• joyful
• jolly
• optimistic
• blithe
• gay
• mirthful
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• blithesome
• cheering
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

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3

as in hazy

filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension

skies made murky from the smoke of forest fires that were many miles to the west

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hazy
• misty
• clouded
• rainy
• foggy
• muddy
• cloudy
• thick
• smoggy
• smoky
• milky
• soupy
• beclouded
• gauzy
• befogged
• turbid
• slimy
• mucky
• overcast
• miasmic
• stormy
• brumous
• slushy
• opaque
• dirty
• smudgy
• miry
• miasmal
• sooty
• miasmatic
• filmy
• smokey

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• limpid
• bright
• cloudless
• clean
• unclouded
• pellucid
• sunny
• transparent
• fair
• translucent
• sunshiny
• clement

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• clear
• limpid
• bright
• cloudless
• clean
• unclouded
• pellucid
• sunny
• transparent
• fair
• translucent
• sunshiny
• clement

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4

as in ambiguous

having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning

a murky reply to a question about his intentions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ambiguous
• dark
• cryptic
• obscure
• mysterious
• enigmatic
• vague
• unclear
• mystic
• opaque
• nebulous
• esoteric
• questionable
• inscrutable
• uncertain
• deep
• enigmatical
• occult
• equivocal
• confusing
• arcane
• hazy
• complicated
• fuliginous
• muddy
• shadowy
• obscurant
• fuzzy
• foggy
• eerie
• weird
• elliptical
• indistinct
• misty
• clouded
• shrouded
• cloudy
• difficult
• recondite
• elliptic
• uncanny
• abstruse
• complex
• double-edged
• dim
• cloaked
• Delphic
• undefined
• faint
• incomprehensible
• shaded
• disguised
• inexplicable
• perplexing
• indirect
• puzzling
• bewildering
• beclouded
• undetermined
• indecipherable
• concealed
• baffling
• inexact
• masked
• befogged
• indefinite
• eery
• indistinguishable
• unknowable
• invisible
• impenetrable
• intangible
• obfuscatory
• mystifying
• noncommittal
• unfathomable
• confounding
• inexplicit
• impalpable
• unanswerable
• shadowlike
• obscurantic
• sphinxlike
• obtuse
• inappreciable
• circuitous
• bedimmed
• roundabout
• obnubilated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• obvious
• plain
• unambiguous
• understandable
• distinct
• bright
• unequivocal
• accessible
• certain
• comprehensible
• evident
• legible
• intelligible
• knowable
• strong
• pellucid
• sure
• fathomable
• firm
• nonambiguous
• straightforward
• defined
• explicit
• direct
• visible
• definite
• determined
• tangible
• exact
• self-explanatory
• self-evident
• appreciable
• unmistakable
• palpable
• blatant
• patent

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• clear
• obvious
• plain
• unambiguous
• understandable
• distinct
• bright
• unequivocal
• accessible
• certain
• comprehensible
• evident
• legible
• intelligible
• knowable
• strong
• pellucid
• sure
• fathomable
• firm
• nonambiguous
• straightforward
• defined
• explicit
• direct
• visible
• definite
• determined
• tangible
• exact
• self-explanatory
• self-evident
• appreciable
• unmistakable
• palpable
• blatant
• patent

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5

as in vague

not seen or understood clearly

a gubernatorial candidate with a murky position on the hot-button issue of capital punishment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vague
• hazy
• faint
• shadowy
• dark
• nebulous
• unclear
• foggy
• indistinct
• misty
• opaque
• fuzzy
• pale
• obscure
• blurry
• undefined
• dim
• bleary
• undetermined
• gauzy
• indefinite
• indistinguishable
• blear
• gloomy
• dusky
• mysterious
• invisible
• intangible
• puzzling
• incomprehensible
• inexplicable
• indiscernible
• impalpable
• indecipherable
• inappreciable
• obfuscatory
• hieroglyphic
• hieroglyphical

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• definite
• obvious
• distinct
• bright
• pellucid
• plain
• evident
• certain
• strong
• sure
• firm

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• clear
• definite
• obvious
• distinct
• bright
• pellucid
• plain
• evident
• certain
• strong
• sure
• firm

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